I'm trying to find a wider variety of WW2 trucks, primarily interested in US but it never hurts to have others as well. I asked this over at FSM and was told there are some people here who really know their trucks and whats available in kits.

This is what I came up with over at FSM, curious what else is out there.

Dodge 3/4 ton Command car, Weapons carrier

Dodge 3/4 ton Ambulance (currently OOP)

Dodge 1 1/2 truck 6x6

Open cab GMC 2 1/2 ton truck

Closed cab GMC 2 1/2 ton truck

GMC water / fuel truck (currently OOP)

Chevy 30 CWT truck (LRDG)

DUKW

Ford & Chevrolet Gun Tractor

More Jeeps than you can shake a stick at

Mack 7.5 (resin)

Dodge D15 (resin)

Diamond T (resin)

White 666 (resin)

Ward LaFrance (resin)


These were the resin companies I now know of to check

Wespe
Scale Line
Accurate Armor
Azimut
PSP
Real Models
Masters Productions
DES
CGM


and then conversions of other kits

Studebaker 2 1/2 ton truck from Italeri BM-13 (?) Katyusha

Chevrolet 1.5 ton truck from Italeri GMC 2 1/2 ton (remove one rear axle and remove some of the hood side louvers)

any others I might consider?


I am particularly interested in other militarized civilian trucks like the Chevy LRDG kit but Fords or Dodges, also some of the larger than 2 1/2 ton trucks.


I got really interested in this after finding this site

http://www.firetrucks-atwar.com/index

I can do many of these with the commonly available kits but it would be nice not to have to do all of them on the same 2 or 3 trucks. Also military ambulances or fire apparatus of the other nations would be interesting, I saw one kit for a British military fire truck & trailer.

Thanks

Aaron
Thanks for the link Here's a clickable version
http://www.firetrucks-atwar.com/index

I'm sure our resident truck expert on W.W.2 trucks MrRoo will add to the thread There is a softskin campaign build coming up Lot's of great ideas for it now

Some WW2 British trucks,

Full kits:

CMP 15 cwt - Italeri/Peerless/Airfix OOP
CMP quad tractor - as above, OOP
Ford quad tractor - Tamiya
Bedford portee - Italeri/peerless/airfix
Bedford MWD - Lead sled
Bedford OYD - Accurate armour (several versions)
Bedford QL - Resicast (several versions)
AEC Matador - Accurate armour/cromwell
Austin Tilly - Accurate armour
Austin K2Y -Accurate armour (several versions)
Scammel - Accurate armour (several versions)
Albion tractor - Accurate armour
Fordson WOT - Plus model

Conversions:

Airborne jeep - Resicast (various RAMC,RA,recce etc)
Bedford QL standard cab (for portee kit) - Accurate armour/rResicast
Bedford QLR (for portee kit) - Plus model

These are off the top of my head, im sure there are more its just i cant think if them now.

also bear in mind the extensive British use of the jeep, DUKW and many other US made trucks.

regards

Joe

Don't forget the New Bedford RLfrom AA----just got 2--"Magic"
aye
BARV
(GOSMG)

You have done a pretty complete list of all the commonly availiable kits out there but there are a lot of small companys as well doing some of the more odd ball models and conversions. There is also a wider variety of makes and models in the smaller scales of 1/72 and 1/76 in both resin and plastic.

Masters production do some nice conversion kits for the GMC kits for instance and there is a new Brazilian Company doing a Chev 30 cwt.

But there are also a lot not done in any form of kit and these really need scratchbuilding if you are able. The main criteria of course is imformation on the vehicles and ,at least with US vehicles of this era there is a lot of information availiable to enable you to build them.

Cheers
Cliff

Thanks, I spent some time today poking through some of the company websites and Great Models. I guess there is more out there than I first thought, even sticking just to plastic kits. I guess the real problem is the Allies used so many trucks, quite a few have been done but that still leaves quite a few that haven't been.

I'll have to watch for the soft skin campaign, its been quite a while since I've done one and even longer since I actually finished one but I have several available that should be ready to go.

Well, welcome & hope you find your time here rewarding.

You will find a small group of not so soft-skinned guys, who love soft-skinned vehicles, and who regularly ponder why there is more German junk & more modelers of German junk than is proportionally equivalent to the actual numbers of vehicles produced or the numbers of world wars won ...

Unfortunately, over 2-1/2 ton size, you are thrown into the resin, meaning high cost, world. Kits exist and it gets better over time, but cost, quality, and ease of build make it a tough row to hoe ... When you get in the big bucks arena of resin, I'd try a Azimut or Acc.Armour before you get into Real Models ... But then again, RM has some COE vehicles ...

Again, welcome & hope you join our Trucks Campaign/Build ...

John